March 18 – A short-wived experiment of de first pubwic buses (howding eight passengers) begins in Paris.

May 3 – John Windrop de Younger, de son of de first governor of Massachusetts, is honoured by being made a fewwow of de Royaw Society, Engwand's new scientific society. Windrop uses his ewection to de Society to gain access to de king, who grants him a new charter, uniting de cowonies of Connecticut and New Haven.